CVE-2022-29536

high
Published — · Modified —
CVSS v3
CVSS v2
VIR risk
8.0

Description

In GNOME Epiphany before 41.4 and 42.x before 42.2, an HTML document can trigger a client buffer overflow (in ephy_string_shorten in the UI process) via a long page title. The issue occurs because the number of bytes for a UTF-8 ellipsis character is not properly considered.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2022-29536

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
arch archfixed42.2-1
debian debianbookwormfixed42.2-1
debian debianbullseyefixed3.38.2-1+deb11u3
debian debianforkyfixed42.2-1
debian debiansidfixed42.2-1
debian debiantrixiefixed42.2-1

References

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.